Failure rates of SATA Hard Drives
Mythical program(mer)
There are times when non-technical people ( mostly ) or some over confident programmers for that matter, assume programming to be easy and that the program can be easily written. But the hidden complexity of the software is actually way beyond the estimated.
Ideating for application is very easy but giving it actual existence takes lots of pain. And that pain is discovered when actual work is started on the development side.
So when a complex program is assumed to be easy, its a event of Simple Matter of Programming.
To know more about it : http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SimpleMatterOfProgramming
http://blog.ethanvizitei.com/2008/04/all-i-need-is-programmer.html
Thoughts related to Steve Jobs
While leading Apple, co-founder Steve Jobs learned a thing or two about failure. Dismal sales of the Apple III and its follow-up -- a computer Jobs pushed for called LISA -- caused Apple to lose nearly half its market to rival IBM in the early 1980s.
"Sometimes the market, the people [and] the idea aren't right but you have to move on, [and] try again," Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell says of Jobs. Bushnell was a longtime mentor to Jobs. "If you lose a game of chess, you still set up the game and go at it again," he says.
Investments : Compound Interest vs Mutual Funds ( equity )
Other day I was reading a book about how profound impact can be laid by very small yet compound alterations in habits / investments.
So, it made me wonder what will be differences in returns among <b>Investment A :</b> You get Compound Interest payable annually <b>Investment B:</b> You invest in equity & hopefully markets do fine .
<b>Investment A :</b> If you invest INR 3000 annually for 21 years, at the interest rate of 9% payable annually.
You would have invested INR 63000 .
Final Amount after Compound Interest in 21 years : INR 185620 .
Total CAGR : 29%
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<b>Investment B :</b> If you invest INR 3000 in SIPs payable monthly for 5 years ( 60 Instalments ) , there are Mutual Funds which gives you CAGR quite comparable to Investment A ( of about 28 % ) .
So, I presume it's better to Invest in Mutual Funds ( which is quite volatile ) but SIP mode dissolves volatility considerably.
Fingers crossed.
when i love something, I love to talk about it.
So someone was cribbing about not including Galaxy S2 & including Apple's iPhone as one of the best phone in the "Best phones list" in post : http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/mobile-phone/3210667/15-best-smar... .
Then I had to speak out. This is what I said :
I own a HTC One X , it crashed thrice and I lost my data ( which I didn't back up ). HTC support sucks.
About Samsung Galaxy, after an year, it started malfunctioning, screen has got dead pixels and tap isn't working on a few areas.
About Apple, It's an amazing ecosystem. I own a Mac, i had issues, I took it to Apple Care, they replaced the parts without hassles on priority. I have iPad 2 too, been amazing so far.
Apple sells not because of "The brand" but because of built quality ( check tech specs ) , amazing support, amazing integration among different devices.
- enough said
People are agreeing to it :))
PS : HTC Customer Care services are really bad in India & they should certainly work on that.
